Terry, Thanks for your response and the questions you raised. Here is my quick shot at answering them.
Regarding a) In the Evaluative component of every mode of thought one hopes to find criteria and methods of sufficient power to suggest when there is a need to use external tools, but habits of mind, preferences and bias built in Reflective thought and projected through Intentional thought often fail to set the threshold of acceptance to do that. However, there is no reason that in a computational version of the theory this could not be done through data mining algorithms, correlations, or a "doubt machine". The fail safe in the theory is that there is feedback through Reflective thought (the "Reflective loop”), that reviews each evaluative “outcome” and adapts the plan of action according to its relevant knowledge and intelligence (capacity to effectively apply that knowledge), an implementation of trial and error that can be as sophisticated as the thinker’s brain or a computerized system allows.
Regarding b) As you know the human brain has quite a good system of error detection but often overrules it as Daniel Kahneman pointed out so well. The problem is that the tools you desire would have to have predictive smarts equivalent to the speed and effectiveness of subconscious parallel processing for them to be able to intervene at the speed of thought itself, which is constantly testing relationships of information in a real time context at subconscious speeds before the slower processes of consciousness can lay hold of and redirect it.
Or, so I believe,
Chuck
> On Feb 26, 2016, at 10:36 AM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The above implies two activities for a Theory of Design Thinking to represent: a) The processes by which designers can identify when their thinking is insufficient or mistaken and there is a need to use external tools and (this is the important bit), when the internal responses within the designer mistakenly tell them that they are successfully and thinking correctly, and; b) the processes by which designers can integrate their thinking about designs with the information from tools (that predict better than the designer), when the information from the tools contradicts the internal experiences and thinking of the designer.
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> It may be the Theory of Design Thinking already does this? If so, could you please explain more as I haven't managed to get it yet.
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